River Dour contamination
- 22 August 2017 19:57333046Only two days ago I was walking along the stretch in town and thought that the water looked as clear as I could remember and full of Brown Trout, now this.
http://www.kentlive.news/a-dover-river-has-turned-pink-with-contamination-and-killed-dozens-of-fish/story-30491614-detail/story.html - 22 August 2017 21:41333048Not as bad as reported, just received this from Mr Newsam who is heavily involved with the River Dour partnership.
The River Dour Partnership, Environment Agency and DDC as landowners have been
aware of and acting on this problem for several weeks. It is largely down to
the low rainfall in the last autumn causing a drop in aquifer levels that we
were forewarned about by Veolia Water in January this year. The EA don't
consider the colouration to be a threat to human health but are analysing
samples. I have seen the dead fish myself and they are not trout, which don't
travel that far up the river, but probably sticklebacks. - 22 August 2017 23:42333049In places the Dour is a disgrace, to much vegetation in some places, by the side of Morrisons, trees growing in the river to many rushes, weeds etc, catching all types of litter, and also a lot of the water, in the 80 years of my life I have never seen this area that bad, even when the Engineering works was there you could always see the river.
With the loss of the mills and their water wheels came the downfall, such a shame - Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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28 August 2017 19:10333212A trip out to Russell Gardens today,
The first 2 are from spots close to those in the article, water almost completely evaporated.
This one from the far end of Bushy Ruff near the Drellingore tributary source, barely a trickle but that is quite common.
Thankfully the Temple Ewell source is flowing strong and keeping the Kearsney lakes and rest of the river in good flow.Arte et Marte
